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There are strong pockets of resistance to Islamist tyranny in every one of the 57 Muslim countries, including in Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. True, such groups are disorganized and politically weak, but, unlike so many “progressive” Westerners, they have been willing to pay a high price for telling the truth and for organizing to obtain their freedom. They have been censored, silenced, jailed, tortured, impoverished, exiled or murdered. They tell me that my writings about Islamic gender apartheid, honor killings, polygamy, forced child marriage, the burqa, female genital mutilation, etc. have given them strength and hope. They do not feel completely abandoned by western so-called “progressives” who have been completely Stalinized and Palestinianized and have thus embraced Islamist and anti-Zionist totalitarian movements in the name of “anti-racism,” “anti-imperialism,” and “anti-colonialism.” Every ex-Muslim and anti-Islamist religious or secular Muslim also gives them hope and inspiration.
The “Jewish Al-Jazeera” network should appeal to these heroic democrats, to their hopes and dreams; such a news channel should arm them with information about women’s rights and about the violation of human rights in Islamic countries. I am in touch with many Muslim and ex-Muslim heroes who are fighting for liberty. Providing them with the truth and with information will strengthen them in the battles that only they can undertake.
Here’s some more very good news. The World Energy Council estimates that Israel’s oil shale deposits may, when developed, equal Saudi Arabia’s oil capacity.
I only hope and pray that, unlike the Saudis, an oil-rich Israeli population does not decorate their hotels and private homes in too gaudy or glitzy a manner.
Lastly, I want to quote Carolyn Glick’s conclusions about what we must learn from the entire Goldstone affair. She reminds us that it is more important for Machiavelli’s Prince or for any government to be feared rather than loved. She commends the world’s Jewish community for having continued to challenge Goldstone on his lies, misinformation, disinformation, one-sided information, lack of even-handedness, lack of context, wrong interpretation. People persistently challenged him.
The final lesson of the Goldstone experience is found in the fact that the publication of malicious slander did not paralyze the country. The IDF continued to strike Hamas targets. Fear of more lies from Goldstone and his Israel-bashing associates did not convince the government to stop defending the country. The lesson is that we must not allow the misdeeds of others to deny us our rights. Rather, we must assert them in the face of condemnation and wait until the condemners realize they cannot defeat us…If the government remains faithful to the truth and to our rights, it will empower our supporters throughout the world to rally to our side… And if we boldly assert our rights even in the face of international condemnation, we will see that in the fullness of time, the rightness of our position will carry the day.
